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Archive for February, 2008

CQ 160-Meter Contest, SSB: 0000Z, Feb 23 to 2359Z, Feb 24

by @ Thursday, February 21st, 2008. Tags: , ,
Filed under contests

Just a reminder that the CQ 160 contest is this weekend. The rules are located here The mailing deadline for the CW logs is February 28, 2008 and the SSB logs is March 31st, 2008. Remember the DX window from 1830kc to 1835kc. The contest committee will be keeping an eye on the internet chat [...]

VP6DX QSL NOTES

by @ Thursday, February 21st, 2008. Tags: , , ,
Filed under dx

The Ducie Island gang have institued several ways to QSL. You need to pay attention as you may be wasting your QSL if you do not follow the instructions! Their preferred method is to use their Online QSL Request System (OQRS) From the VP6DX website: The QSL’s will be sent in this order: Online DIRECT [...]

BBC to end English SW transmissions to Europe

by @ Saturday, February 16th, 2008. Tags: , ,
Filed under SWL

Radio Frequencies Shortwave changes for Europe – February 2008 All remaining BBC World Service shortwave transmissions to Europe will close on 18th February 2008. This will be a loss to some listeners, but there are alternative ways of hearing BBC programmes. This change is being made in line with listener trends in radio. Increasing numbers [...]

Ducie info

by @ Saturday, February 16th, 2008. Tags: , ,
Filed under dx

News #16- 2008 Feb 15 Directly from Ducie Island: ARRL DX CW contest starts soon. VP6DX will participate in a limited fashion: * On the CW contest bands 160, 80, 40, 20 15 and 10, we probably will not be at the “normal” frequencies. Operators will pick a frequency based on band conditions. Each operator [...]

Kosovo Operation

by @ Saturday, February 16th, 2008. Tags:
Filed under dx

Kosovo Press Release # 1 February 16, 2008 A multi-national group of Amateur Radio operators is now in Kosovo in an effort to support and help revitalize Amateur Radio locally. The initial team members will begin activity today. Activity will be on all bands on CW and SSB. Look for YU8/G3TXF, YU8/N7NG, YU8/OH2BH, YU8/OH2PM, YU8/ON8NC [...]

Ducie Island Dxpedition

by @ Wednesday, February 13th, 2008. Tags: ,
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http://ducie2008.dl1mgb.com/news/index.php News #14- 2008 Feb 13 I just had a telephone call with Carsten (DL6LAU) on Ducie Island. The reason we did not get any update or online log from the island is that they had no time until now because of a big workload to setup the stations and antennas. They plan to go [...]

CW Skimmer Vs. Contesting

by @ Tuesday, February 12th, 2008. Tags: , ,
Filed under Uncategorized

If you are a contester, you have probably heard about this new software package called “CW Skimmer.” There is currently a debate raging about the use of CW SKimmer in contesting. For those that don’t know what CW Skimmer is, the link to it is http://www.dxatlas.com/CwSkimmer/ According to VE3NEA (who has created some truly outstanding [...]

3Y0E info

by @ Tuesday, February 12th, 2008. Tags: , ,
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From the 3Y0E website: Bouvet-3Y0E went QRTon February 9th, 2008at 19:15 z Note: all contacts after this date will stand for fakes which means somebody pirated the call cheating you. All log issues will be double checked once Petrus returns to RSA – all operators concerned will be informed of their log status then. Now, [...]

DXpeditions

by @ Tuesday, February 12th, 2008. Tags: ,
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Dxpeditions are posted in the weekly dx newsletters. Sometimes it is a challenge to keep up with who is where. I have been using a whiteboard to write down dxpeditions that I am interested in, times, freqs, etc. A new web feature has been made by N0HR that plots all of the current dxpeditions on [...]

Contest University

by @ Tuesday, February 12th, 2008. Tags: , ,
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Contest University will be held on Thursday May 15, 2008, from 8:30am to 5:30pm, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Dayton, Ohio. This is the day before the Dayton Hamvention officially opens. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to gain knowledge that may take you years of practice, trial and error or lost time to learn [...]

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